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Best way to benchmark network speeds?
I've got a dozen or so VPS's out there all over the world. When I do apt-get updates on them, a bunch of them seem really slow. I'm looking for some tool to benchmark my network speed to start separating the good VPS's from the meh ones. I've used ping, traceroute, and wget to download files to get an idea, but is there a more standard test that can be run that will dump out a console report?
Thanks
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speedtest-cli
ubuntuserverguide.com/2014/01/how-to-test-internet-connection-speed-using-speedtest-cli-on-ubuntu-server.html
The bottleneck with apt-get install/update (or any downloading for that matter) can sometimes be the disk rather than the network (such as high I/O and constantly busy disks).
If you are sure it is the network, make sure to use the closest mirror to your server for optimal speeds.
Might be a bit overkill, but:
speedtest cli is what i use
Not related to network speed but sometimes also cpu and disc io may cause slow vps so you can use https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-benchmark-your-system-cpu-file-io-mysql-with-sysbench to check that as well.
Since you said it happens during apt-get, it's probably just the mirror servers it's grabbing data from.
rping ?
iperf will generally give you the most relevant results.